This is intended to be a homage to very many musicians I've loved since I started listening to music. My intention is to tell what I know about them, hoping that those people who like them too, will help me fill numerous gaps, which I may have in their careers and discographies. Sorry, but there are no MP3 audio files here at all, just info (and love for the musicians).

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Tuesday, 10 March 2015

Superb trumpet player (also playing flugelhorn), Lew Soloff was born Lewis Michael Soloff on February 20th, 1944 in New York.

He started playing ukelele as a child, followed by piano, but then he started studying trumpet. He became a professional musician in 1959.

Some of the band and orchestras where he played were: Maynard Ferguson, Joe Henderson/Kenny Dorham, Clark Terry, Gil Evans, Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Band and Slide Hampton.

He joined Blood Sweat & Tears in May 1968, staying with the band until 1973.

He rejoined Gil Evans in 1977, playing on and off with him until Gil´s death.

He formed a quintet with Jon Faddis in 1975.

This is a list of lineups I know featuring Lew. It is obviously a very incomplete list, so any help with additional info would be welcomed! Same happens with Lew´s discography. He appears in hundreds more albums but this is what I have been able to write up to now (almost 300 albums already listed here anyway), as I´m publishing the tribute page just one day after he passed away. I´ll be including more albums to his discography along the days...

BLOOD SWEAT & TEARS

This was Blood Sweat & Tears around 1969 and 1970 (at least in July 1969 and September 1970) with new singer, the powerful David Clayton-Thomas and new members Lew Soloff, Chuck Winfield and Jerry Hyman:

Some of the singers/actors featured were: Wayne Cilento, Ann Reinking, Charles Ward or Gail Benedict. The show won two Tony awards, and it ran for two years, until November 1980, but don´t know how much time Lew Soloff spent in the pit band.

Comments: Great guy, Ian Hunter was the leader in Mott the Hoople. This was his second solo album, with help from many great musicians: bass maestro Jaco Pastorius, Aynsley Dunbar (drums), Chris Stainton (keyboards), Cornell Dupree (guitar), David Sanborn (sax), David Bargeron (trombone), Lew Soloff (trumpet), Don Alias (percussion), and some members from Queen (Freddie Mercury, Brian May and Roger Taylor).

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Disclaimer: I don´t own or upload any of the videos linked here. I just include links to live videos that are already available, in order to show the work of this musician. Anyway, if someone feels that some link shouldn't be included, please write me at the email address shown below. And if you know of more videos featuring Lew Soloff, please, also write me with the link.